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14-letter words containing n, a, o, c

  • clingmans dome — mountain on the Tenn.-N.C. border; highest peak of the Great Smoky Mountains: 6,642 ft (2,024 m)
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
  • clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
  • co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
  • co-conspirator — a fellow conspirator; associate or collaborator in a conspiracy.
  • co-educational — A co-educational school, college, or university is attended by both boys and girls.
  • coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
  • coach-and-four — a coach together with the four horses by which it is drawn.
  • coaching glass — a small drinking glass of the early 19th century having no foot.
  • coarse-grained — having a large or coarse grain
  • coarticulation — concomitance of articulation, as in fro, ostensibly a succession of three discrete sounds but physically a single articulation (f-) blending into a coarticulation (-fr-), which blends into an articulation (-r-), which blends into a coarticulation (-ro-), which blends into an articulation (-o).
  • coastguardsman — Coast Guard (def 3).
  • coasting trade — trade between ports along the same coast.
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • cocarcinogenic — of or relating to a cocarcinogen
  • cochairmanship — the position of being one of the two chairmen of an organization
  • cochlear nerve — the branch of the auditory nerve that connects with the cochlea and transmits impulses to the hearing center of the brain
  • cocker spaniel — A cocker spaniel is a breed of small dog with silky hair and long ears.
  • cocktail onion — a small pickled onion served with drinks
  • coconspirators — Plural form of coconspirator.
  • coelanaglyphic — (of pottery) decorated with sunken relief
  • coevolutionary — of or relating to coevolution
  • coffee machine — a machine that makes coffee from ground coffee
  • cognate object — a noun functioning as the object of a verb to which it is etymologically related, as in think a thought or sing a song
  • coinage bronze — an alloy of 95 percent copper, 4 percent tin, and 1 percent zinc.
  • coincidentally — You use coincidentally when you want to draw attention to a coincidence.
  • coinvestigator — a fellow investigator
  • collaborations — Plural form of collaboration.
  • colloquialness — The state or quality of being colloquial.
  • colombian gold — a potent marijuana grown in South America.
  • colon bacillus — coliform bacillus.
  • colonial goose — an old-fashioned name for stuffed roast mutton
  • color sergeant — a sergeant who has charge of battalion or regimental colors.
  • coma berenices — a faint constellation in the N hemisphere between Ursa Major and Boötes containing the Coma Cluster a cluster of approximately 1000 galaxies, at a mean distance of 300 million light years
  • combinableness — The quality or state of being combinable.
  • combined ratio — The combined ratio of an insurer or a reinsurer is the combination of its loss ratio and expense ratio.
  • come naturally — If something comes naturally to you, you find it easy to do and quickly become good at it.
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
  • comfort eating — the practice of eating to make oneself feel happier
  • comma position — angulation (def 3).
  • comma-position — an angular part, position, or formation.
  • command module — the cone-shaped module used as the living quarters in an Apollo spacecraft and functioning as the splashdown vehicle
  • command-driven — pertaining to or denoting a software program whose instructions to perform specified tasks are issued by the user as typed commands in predetermined syntax (contrasted with menu-driven).
  • commandantship — the office of a commandant
  • commemorations — Plural form of commemoration.
  • commensurately — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
  • commensurating — Present participle of commensurate.
  • commensuration — corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree: Your paycheck should be commensurate with the amount of time worked.
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